Ben and Jerry's creators propose pot ice-cream

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March 5, 2015: Ice-cream cones would never be the same again if Ben & Jerry's created the cannabis treat the company's founders are keen on. In an interview with HuffPost Live, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield agreed with a viewer's suggestion the company should add pot to their range in Colorado, where cannabis edibles are legal. "Makes sense to me, combine your pleasures," Cohen said. But Greenfield said while he'd do it if they were in charge, the entrepreneurs no longer make such decisions. They sold the brand to Unilever in 2000. It reminded us of some of the strange flavours ice-creameries come up with to delight and confuse dairy dessert lovers. (Image: Getty)

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Camouflage

November 5, 2014: For those who need to hide their love of ice-cream, Baskin-Robbins is temporarily making the perfect addition to their menu. The company has launched a First Class Camouflage flavour this month to commemorate Veterans Day, with chocolate, caramel and green vanilla cake flavours blended together to form a woodland pattern. Ten cents from the sale of each serve in the US will be donated to United Service Organizations.

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Crocodile

Sweet Spot in the Philippines serves an ice-cream made with crocodile eggs, which come from a reptile park next to the restaurant. "Because crocs are an endangered species, we only get the eggs that do not hatch or are surplus," owner Dino Ramos told the Daily Mail. The eggs are reportedly 80 percent yolk and healthier than chicken eggs.

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Breast milk

A few years ago, when Lady Gaga was very popular, a London ice-creamery released a flavour it dubbed Baby Gaga, which was made with breast milk. The Icecreamists offered women around $27 per 295ml of milk, the Daily Mail reported. The volunteers were screened according to blood donor standards but the local council tried to ban it and Lady Gaga's representatives stepped in to get the company to change the name.

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Pet bird

According to Rocket News, Torimi Cafe in Japan not only allows patrons to eat and drink while surrounded by live birds  it also lets them sample bird-flavoured ice-cream. No actual birds are used as ingredients (phew!), but the cafe claims the three ice-cream flavours taste like "the feeling of pressing the breast of a java sparrow into your mouth" (?), "taking a whiff of a parakeet" (??) and "when you're sleeping with your mouth open and your cockatiel runs over your face and gets its leg in your mouth" (??!). Um.

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Horse

Bone marrow

Portland-based Salt & Straw uses locally sourced cherries (of course) that are smoked and then aged in Portland distilled bourbon (obviously) in each delicious scoop of their bone marrow and bourbon smoked cherries ice-cream. And if you think there's something suss about the use of bone marrow it must be that they haven't specified the origin. Is this really local?

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Viagra

Earlier this year UK food inventor Charlie Harry Francis created a champagne-flavoured ice-cream laced with Viagra for an anonymous celebrity client. Each scoop of the Arousal, as it was all too briefly known, included 25mg of the drug. While Francis was contractually prohibited from identifying his customer (and a post about the ice-cream on his company's blog has been deleted) the man was reportedly "very happy with the end result".

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Snake

Speaking of Viagra, the pit viper is regarded as bit of an aphrodisiac in Japan, so why not make an ice-cream with it? (Image: istolethetv/Flickr)

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Haggis

One of the more unusual flavours on the menu at Harrods was the haggis variety from Morelli's Gelato. Haggis fans will be delighted to know the dessert reputedly has the strong taste of the savoury pudding. Those unfamiliar with the Scottish dish might wince at the thought of sheep entrails in your dairy goods, though.

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Foie gras

A second offal offering on the dessert menu comes from New York's OddFellows. The ice-creamery promotes their unique, short-term offerings on Twitter and you would've needed to get in pretty quickly to get a taste of this foie gras, peanut butter and cocoa concoction.

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Schweddy Balls

While it was meant to be a tribute to a Saturday Night Live skit, not everybody thought Ben & Jerry's Schweddy Balls ice-cream was very funny. Neither sweat nor testicles were ingredients in this dessert, but One Million Moms exerted enough pressure on US supermarkets to discourage wide availability, Huffington Post reported. "The vulgar new flavour has turned something as innocent as ice-cream into something repulsive," the lobby group said. "Not exactly what you want a child asking for at the supermarket."

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Vegemite

"Lamington and Vegemite are quintessentially Aussie and iconic of the great Australian way of life," Gelatissimo boss Dominic Lopresti told the Daily Telegraph, spruiking the company's limited-edition flavours ahead of Australia Day in 2011. "We decided to put an Italian twist on these great Aussie icons to celebrate the beautiful harmony between the Australian and Italian cultures." But that harmony was hard to swallow for some. "I don't want to eat that ever again. Not Vegemite and ice-cream together! Ever!" primary schooler Rhiannon Cooke-Jones told the Tele after they offered her a taste of it.